Alpay

Many landlords are taking their empty houses off the market as a 25 percent cap on rent hikes will expire in July.

The government introduced the ceiling after exorbitant rent prices across the country caused uproar among tenants.

Thousands of people marched on Jan. 8 in the eastern province of Kars to commemorate the tens of thousands of Ottoman soldiers killed in the Sarıkamış operation during World War I.

The starting point of the march was Kızılçubuk, where the ill-fated operation against the Russian Caucasus Army began.